ssh connection randomly times out

[Darren Tucker]

On Fri, 18 Sept 2026 at 18:00, James Moe via openssh-unix-dev
<openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org> wrote:
> On 2026-09-18 15:08, Brian Candler wrote:
> > Then try this at the end of ~/.ssh/config on the client:
> > Host *
> >    ServerAliveInterval 240
>
> I added "TCPKeepAlive yes" to the .ssh/config. It did not make any difference.

Those are TCP keepalives at the OS level.  These typically kick in at
2 hours of inactivity, which is usually too infrequent to help with
this class of problem.

> I will try "ServerAliveInterval".

That is much more likely to help.

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